So Thumper, have you ever thought of writing a book? “No,” comes the reply. “I know too much.”
He’s not joking either. Alan Phillips has seen it all and has the keys to the cupboards containing all the skeletons. But it's very much a case of what goes on tour stays on tour, with confidences to be kept, and penning a no-holds-barred autobiography wouldn’t sit with that.
So, that being the case, what follows is probably the closest you are going to get to the life and times of the man known throughout the game as Thumper, and it has been some life.
